THE ANNOUNCEMENT
The record Bush made with Steve Albini after two straight years on the road is getting the full 30th anniversary treatment, and the deep cuts are the reason to care *. The deluxe edition of "Razorblade Suitcase" lands December 11 through Craft Recordings with 24 tracks, including an "Insect Kin" from the band's "Saturday Night Live" appearance taped four days after the album came out *.
THE DETAILS
- Out December 11 on 2-CD and digitally via Craft Recordings, which sits under BMG *, †
- The original 13-song album plus B-sides "Old", "Broken TV", "Sleeper" and "Bubbles" *
- "16 Oz." demos of "Greedy Fly" and "Cold Contagious", with the "Greedy Fly" demo already streaming *
- Live material: "Glycerine" at Pinkpop, "Insect Kin" and "Personal Holloway" from London's The Forum, plus the November 23, 1996 "SNL" performance *
- Bush's New Order cover "In A Lonely Place (Tricky Mix)", cut for "The Crow: City Of Angels" and produced and mixed by Tricky *
- A limited gold-and-blue swirl 2-LP of 2016's "Razorblade Suitcase (In Addition)", sold only through BushOfficial.com and CraftRecordings.com *
- The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 1996, with "Swallowed" spending seven weeks atop Modern Rock Tracks *
WHY IT MATTERS
ANNIVERSARY: a No. 1 album recorded in England with Albini, partly at Abbey Road, earns a proper vault dig rather than a shrug-worthy repress *. The surprise here is the Tricky-mixed New Order cover finally sitting on the same disc as the album it orbited.
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